In a decade that has been marred by travel advisories, it's very nice and reassuring to note that things can change for the better.

When the Belfast Agreement, that long-negotiated truce, first brought peace and political stability to Northern Ireland in 1998, you wouldn't have thought to take a vacation in Belfast. Thirty years of violence between Catholics and Protestants had left the world with impressions of horror on the high roads.

But Ireland's second-largest city (popula ...

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